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Detectives investigating the discovery of a severed head on a Scottish beach have established the identity of the dead woman.
Tayside Police said the woman was a 36-year-old from Brechin, on the east coast, who had been reported missing by her employer.
Her severed head was found wrapped in a plastic bag on Tuesday morning by two sisters, aged eight and 11, on a beach at Arbroath.
A police search of the shoreline found two hands, but no more body parts have been discovered and the beach has been reopened.
Detectives had been planning to issue an artist's impression of the woman in a bid to trace her but this has now been postponed.
According to a description issued on Wednesday, the woman had brown eyes, brown eyebrows and shoulder-length brown hair, with a pale complexion and freckles over her cheeks and nose.
A forensic examination found a circular scar in the middle of her forehead, just below the hair line.
At present the case is not being treated as murder.
can anyone explain how a severed head found in a plastic bag could get there and not involvedanyone other than the victim
Tayside Police said the woman was a 36-year-old from Brechin, on the east coast, who had been reported missing by her employer.
Her severed head was found wrapped in a plastic bag on Tuesday morning by two sisters, aged eight and 11, on a beach at Arbroath.
A police search of the shoreline found two hands, but no more body parts have been discovered and the beach has been reopened.
Detectives had been planning to issue an artist's impression of the woman in a bid to trace her but this has now been postponed.
According to a description issued on Wednesday, the woman had brown eyes, brown eyebrows and shoulder-length brown hair, with a pale complexion and freckles over her cheeks and nose.
A forensic examination found a circular scar in the middle of her forehead, just below the hair line.
At present the case is not being treated as murder.
can anyone explain how a severed head found in a plastic bag could get there and not involvedanyone other than the victim
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